U.S Secretary of State John Kerry has said that he regrets using the word "apartheid" when discussing the Israeli-Palestinian situation. He said that if he could "rewind the tape" he "would have chosen a different word."

Nobel Peace laureate and former South African archbishop Desmond Tutu has raised eyebrows and ire by declaring his support for the boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) movement targeting Israeli "apartheid" and other crimes against the Palestinians.

The release of Nelson Mandela in 1990, after twenty-seven years of political imprisonment in South Africa, ranks as one of the most momentous events of the 20th century. The recent biopic of his life insight-fully illuminates this moment.

Cape Town -
The disenfranchisement of the black majority in South Africa did not begin with the rule of the Afrikaner-dominated Nationalist Party in 1948, but after a history of British colonization much like the U.S.

Nelson Mandela had the courage to stand up to the Illegal foreign terrorists who had taken over South Africa’s government. His example proved that evil cannot defeat the human spirit. Though his body may have passed, his memory will be eternal.

Johannesburg -
Thirty-seven years ago today, a photojournalist captured the image of a boy killed by police during the high school student’s protests known as the “Soweto Uprising”; the image became a symbol of the struggle for equal rights of black South Africans

Tokyo Sexwale is currently in the news for his high profile divorce from Judy Sexwale.
From terrorist to business tycoon to public sector to failed multi-racial marriage, we take a look at just a few of many aspects of Tokyo's life so far:

Johannesburg -
During apartheid, one of the reasons the whole world opposed the régime was that it legislated racism into being. In a very real sense, apartheid made it legal to discriminate, based on race. Not much has changed.

Toronto -
Pride Toronto is making worldwide headlines this year, and not for the fact that legendary 80’s icon and LGBT supporter Cyndi Lauper is performing a free concert, but more for the community angst generated by the Board’s decision to ban two words.

The South African Constitutional Court is hearing an unique application by former apartheid-era security policeman Wybrand du Toit, convicted with two others of killing four policemen in a December 1989 bomb blast in Port Elizabeth.